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EZEKIEL CHAPTER 19
A lamentation for the princes of Israel, under the parable of lions’ whelps taken in a pit, Eze_19:1-9; and for Jerusalem, under the parable of a wasted vine, Eze_19:10-14.
Moreover, Heb. And.
Take up a lamentation; son of man, Ezekiel, declare what a lamentable state the princes of Israel are falling into, propound it by parable. It was usually expressed in verse, as Jeremiah did in his lamentations, and as appears 2Ch_35:25; but the prophet is here directed to a hieroglyphic, as Eze_19:2.
The princes of Israel; though they were kings, yet, because subject to Babylon or Egypt, they are, by a diminutive, lessening term, called
princes, and these were Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. Though they had but the two tribes under them, yet because some of Israel that escaped the captivating power of Shalmaneser were joined with the two tribes, they are called by the name of Israel.